"the immediate excess poems" contains the prerequiisite 'streams of consciousness' and abstractness usually considered in art or poems. This volume also combines a straightforward style of 'story-poem' the author (partial pen name a. walther) uses to describe the, sometimes, very simple steps to finding life in art and vice versa. Whether critical or prasing the views and "excesses" in these poems range from tv, movies, music, jazz, and, of course, politics and religion. In art (the poem) should never look to conform to convention.